My dad was a geologist and my mum was a nurse who directed amateur theatrics.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
'Doctor Who' was my first telly job, and before that I did a lot of theatre in education, children's theatre.
I used to dig around the sandbox and pull out pieces of coal and show them to my mother, and she used to say that's how I must have known I was going to be a geologist.
My dad and I watched 'Amadeus' when I was 6, and I knew I wasn't going to be an engineer.
In my mid-20s, I was directing episodes of 'Alfred Hitchcock' and 'Peter Gunn.' I was pretty much on course and - as I sometimes joke - was prepared to devote my life to become the second best film director in my family.
I am a geologist.
At school I briefly wanted to be a palaeontologist, but I was no good at chemistry and physics.
My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science.
My father was a writer and an acting teacher.
My father was a chemist on the Yale faculty, my mother a housewife.
My father was a doctor.